# G. R. Blane

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**G. R. Blane** (1791–1821) was an employee of the [East India Company](/source/East_India_Company) in [British India](/source/British_India).[1]

## Ancestry

George Rodney Blane was born in 1791 to Sir [Gilbert Blane](/source/Gilbert_Blane), and died aged 30 years on 1 May 1821.[1]

## Education

Blane was educated at [Charterhouse School](/source/Charterhouse_School), and in 1804 (aged 13 years) he joined the [Royal Military College, Marlow](/source/Royal_Military_College,_Sandhurst) as a cadet of the [East India Company](/source/East_India_Company).[1]

## Career at East India Company

He had joined the department of line but due to his excellence in mathematics he was transferred to the ordinance department where he attracted the positive attention of Prime Minister [William Pitt the Younger](/source/William_Pitt_the_Younger).[1] After completing his education at Woolwich in 1807, aged 16 years he arrived in India to serve in the Bengal Engineers,[2] part of the East India Company’s Bengal Army and predecessors of the [Indian Army Corps of Engineers](/source/Indian_Army_Corps_of_Engineers) [Bengal Engineer Group](/source/Bengal_Engineer_Group). He surveyed [Cuttack](/source/Cuttack), [Nepal](/source/Nepal), foothills of [Himalaya](/source/Himalaya) and he desilted and remodeled [Western Yamuna Canal](/source/Western_Yaumna_Canal).[1] His assistant 1820-1821 was Ensign Edmund Swetenham of the Bengal Engineers.[3][4]

## Western Yamuna Canal

Main article: [Western Yaumna Canal](/source/Western_Yaumna_Canal)

The earlier [Prithviraj Chauhan](/source/Prithviraj_Chauhan) era or possibly earlier, pre-existing canal was dug out and renovated in 1335 CE by [Firuz Shah Tughlaq](/source/Firuz_Shah_Tughlaq), excessive silting caused it to stop flowing in 1750 CE, the [British Raj](/source/British_Raj) undertook a three-year renovation and remodeling of [Western Yamuna Canal](/source/Western_Yaumna_Canal) in 1817 by Blane or [Bengal Engineer Group](/source/Bengal_Engineer_Group), he died in 1821 CE and in 1832-33 [Tajewala Barrage](/source/Tajewala_Barrage) dam at Yaumna was built to regulate the flow of water.[5][6]

## See also

- [Indira Gandhi Canal](/source/Indira_Gandhi_Canal)
- [Irrigation in India](/source/Irrigation_in_India)
- [Indian Rivers Inter-link](/source/Indian_Rivers_Inter-link)
- [Inland waterways of India](/source/Inland_waterways_of_India)
- [Ganges Canal](/source/Ganges_Canal)
- [Ganges Canal (Rajasthan)](/source/Ganges_Canal_(Rajasthan))
- [Upper Ganges Canal Expressway](/source/Upper_Ganges_Canal_Expressway)

## References

1. [*The Annual biography and obituary*](https://books.google.com/books?id=NG4EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA434). 1823. p. 434. Retrieved 2016-04-09.

1. [*List of the officers of the Bengal army, 1758- 1834, part I*](https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3624/page/n220). London, Constable and Company. 1928. p. 165.

1. ["The India office and Burma office list 1820:2"](https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3140636?urlappend=%3Bseq=195). *HathiTrust*. '***(East-India Register and Directory). 1803. [hdl:2027/uc1.b3140636?urlappend=%3Bseq=195](https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3140636?urlappend=%253Bseq=195)***

1. [*List of the officers of the Bengal army, 1758-1834, part IV*](https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3492/page/n223/mode/2up). London, Constable and Company. 1928. p. 216.

1. ["Western Yamuna Canal Major Irrigation Project JI01653 -"](https://web.archive.org/web/20171113165614/http://india-wris.nrsc.gov.in/wrpinfo/index.php?title=Western_Yamuna_Canal_Major_Irrigation_Project_JI01653). india-wris.nrsc.gov.in. Archived from [the original](http://india-wris.nrsc.gov.in/wrpinfo/index.php?title=Western_Yamuna_Canal_Major_Irrigation_Project_JI01653) on 13 November 2017. Retrieved 2016-04-09.

1. Hoiberg, Dale (2000). [*Students' Britannica India, Volumes 1-5*](https://books.google.com/books?id=DPP7O3nb3g0C&q=Yamuna+River&pg=PA290). Popular Prakashan. pp. 290–291. ISBN 0-85229-760-2.

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